LAZY is an honest look at dealing with adolescence, tragedy and the transition from youth to adulthood while growing up in a small town. Filmed on the edges of Kentucky and Tennessee, a recent high school graduate must revisit a journey from his past after the suicide of his best friend.
2016
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
34 minutes
Director:
Ryan Hartley
REIFF 2016
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
49 minutes
Director:
Matt Crossett
REIFF 2016
Horse. Cowboy. Skier. Rope. ICE COWBOYS is a documentary about the sport of skijoring as demonstrated throughout the Rocky Mountains. This high-adrenaline, time trial sport captivates spectators with natural, raw power. ICE COWBOYS follows competitors of the open class during the 2015 season as they travel from one small mountain town to the next fighting for glory.
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
33 minutes
Director:
Christine Vartoughian
REIFF 2016
Max McLean is eighteen years old and can't get out of bed. Since her boyfriend Adam killed himself over a year ago, Max has been using sex, drugs, and parties to ignore the pain until one day she wakes up in a hospital, haven taken a nearly lethal dose of sleeping pills. While being haunted by visions of Adam, Max runs away from home and ventures into the forest with a bizarre but endearing boy named Ish.
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
11 minutes
Director:
Derrick Kisabeth, Jake Tribble
REIFF 2016
An alcoholic, drug addicted Los Angeles comedian gives up on his career and his life after years of struggling. With no options left, he moves back home with his dad in Kentucky in an attempt to salvage what little life he has left.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
10 minutes
Director:
Amber R Langston
REIFF 2016
A milkman terrorizes unsuspecting young women in his neighborhood.
Documentary Feature
Ireland
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
15 minutes
Director:
Risteard O'Domhnaill
REIFF 2016
Narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor BRENDAN GLEESON, ATLANTIC follows the fortunes of three small fishing communities - in Ireland, Norway and Newfoundland - as they struggle to maintain their way of life in the face of mounting economic and ecological challenges. Filmed in some of the most remote and breathtaking locations in the North Atlantic, and at close quarters with some of the seas most captivating characters, ATLANTIC will bring the very personal stories in the vital resource debate to the fore, exploring how three modern day communities must learn from the past, in order to secure a brighter future.
Experimental
United States
Runtime:
7 minutes
Director:
Margaret Orr
REIFF 2016
This is a journey through the mind of a depressed individual.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
40 minutes
Director:
Tony Savant
REIFF 2016
Two young musicians play music together and discover love while trying to escape their dysfunctional lives in the rural south.
2017
Best of Fest
Narrative Short
Iran
Runtime:
13 minutes
Director:
Milad Jarmooz
REIFF 2017
The story of a woman accused of infidelity on the day after her wedding.
Special Jury Award
Experimental
United States
Runtime:
7 minutes
Director:
Kristin Reeves
REIFF 2017
The Chicago Board of Education made history in 2013 approving the closure of 50 schools, the largest public school closing to date in the United States. I shot all 50 schools on a 100 roll of 16mm film while my DSLR caught vignettes of their communities. Direct laser animation and bleach were used to distress the 16mm film, which was then optically printed.